Download or read book Violence Against Women Act History and Federal Funding written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Violence Against Women Act written by Garrine P. Laney and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides a brief legislative history of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and an overview of the crimes addressed through VAWA. It concludes with a brief description of the most recent reauthorization of VAWA.

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Download or read book Violence Against Women Act written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 28, 2000, President Clinton signed into law the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) of 2000 as Division B of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-386, H.R. 3244). VAWA 2000 reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act through FY2005, set new funding levels, and added new programs. The original Violence Against Women Act, enacted as Title IV of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (P.L. 103-322, H.R. 3355), became law in 1994. For FY2006, President Bush requests $515 million for VAWA programs, of which $386 million is for programs administered by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and $129 million for programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). On December 8, 2004, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 (P.L. 108447, H.R. 4818) was enacted, which provided $387.28 million in FY2005 funding for violence against women programs administered by DOJ and $129.9 million for those programs administered by HHS. The act mandated a reduction of 0.80% for some FY2005 discretionary appropriations, which included VAWA funding. In addition, there was a 0.54% cut in Commerce-Justice-State discretionary appropriations for FY2005 that affected funding for VAWA programs administered by DOJ. VAWA established within DOJ and HHS a number of discretionary grant programs for state, local, and Indian tribal governments. DOJ administers VAWA grants designed to aid law enforcement officers and prosecutors, encourage arrest policies, stem domestic violence and child abuse, establish and operate training programs for victim advocates and counselors, and train probation and parole officers who work with released sex offenders. Under HHS, grants include funds for battered women's shelters, rape prevention and education, reduction of sexual abuse of runaway and homeless street youth, and community programs on domestic violence. The act provided for several studies of violent crimes against women as well as a number of changes in federal criminal law relating to interstate stalking, intrastate domestic abuse, federal sex offense cases, the rules of evidence regarding use of a victim's past sexual behavior, and HIV testing in rape cases. VAWA 2000 reauthorized most of the original act's programs and created new grant programs to prevent sexual assaults on campuses, assist victims of violence with civil legal concerns, create transitional housing for victims of domestic abuse, and protect elderly and disabled victims of domestic violence. VAWA 2000, also, created a program for safe custody exchange for families of domestic violence. Most recently, Congress passed the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act of 2003 (P.L. 108-36), and the PROTECT Act (P.L. 108-21), which, among other provisions, authorized funding of HHS and DOJ transitional housing assistance programs for victims of domestic violence, respectively.

Download or read book The Violence Against Women Act Overview Legislation and Federal Funding written by Lisa M. Seghetti and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA, P.L. 103-322). The act was intended to change attitudes toward domestic violence, foster awareness of domestic violence, improve services and provisions for victims, and revise the manner in which the criminal justice system responds to domestic violence. This legislation created new programs within the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services that aimed to both reduce domestic violence and improve response to and recovery from domestic violence incidents. VAWA primarily addresses certain types of violent crime through grant programs to state, tribal, and local governments; nonprofit organizations; and universities. VAWA programs target the crimes of intimate partner violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. In 1995, the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) was created administratively within the Department of Justice to administer federal grants authorized under VAWA. Since its creation, the OVW has awarded more than $3 billion in grants. While the OVW administers the majority of VAWA authorized grants, other federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of Justice Programs, also manage VAWA grants. Since 1994, VAWA has been modified and reauthorized several times. In 2000, Congress reauthorized VAWA, enhanced federal domestic violence and stalking penalties, added protections for battered immigrants, and added new programs for elderly and disabled women. In 2005, Congress again reauthorized VAWA. The legislation enhanced penalties for repeat stalking offenders; added protections for battered and trafficked immigrants; and added programs for sexual assault victims and American Indian victims, and programs designed to improve the public health response to domestic violence. Authorization for appropriations for the programs under VAWA expired in 2011. Several bills have been introduced in the 112th Congress that would reauthorize VAWA. On February 2, 2012, the Senate Judiciary Committee ordered reported the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2011 (S. 1925), and on April 26, the Senate amended and passed S. 1925. This bill was met with some opposition. For example, in the Senate Judiciary Committee Report (S.Rept. 112-153) and during the Executive Business Meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, concerns were raised regarding a proposed increase to the cap on the number of U-Visas available for immigrants; a proposed addition to the number of groups given special consideration as underserved populations; a proposed increase of jurisdictional power for American Indian tribes; and the accountability of OVW grantees. On April 27, 2012, Representative Adams introduced the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2012 (H.R. 4970). It differs in substantive ways from S. 1925 including with respect to the VAWA-related immigration provisions and in the populations it would include under its definition of underserved population. H.R. 4970 was met with some opposition in the House. For example, concerns were raised during the markup of H.R. 4970 in the House Judiciary Committee with respect to new restrictions for immigration provisions under VAWA and the absence of special consideration for those who may be discriminated against based on gender identity or sexual orientation. Additionally, some Members sought increased jurisdictional powers for American Indian tribes, similar to provisions in S. 1925. On May 8, 2012, the House Judiciary Committee ordered reported H.R. 4970.~

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Download or read book The Violence Against Women Act written by Joshua Abrahamson and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1990's, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The act was intended to change attitudes toward domestic violence, foster awareness of domestic violence, improve services and provisions for victims, and revise the manner in which the criminal justice system responds to domestic violence. This legislation created new programs within the Department of Justice and Health and Human Services that aimed to both reduce domestic violence and improve response to and recovery from domestic violence incidents. VAWA primarily addresses certain types of violent crime through grant programs to state, tribal, and local governments; non-profit organizations; and universities. VAWA programs target the crimes of intimate partner violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. This book provides a brief legislative history of VAWA and an overview of the crimes addressed with a focus on legislation and funding issues.

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Download or read book Understanding Violence Against Women written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-06-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence against women is one factor in the growing wave of alarm about violence in American society. High-profile cases such as the O.J. Simpson trial call attention to the thousands of lesser-known but no less tragic situations in which women's lives are shattered by beatings or sexual assault. The search for solutions has highlighted not only what we know about violence against women but also what we do not know. How can we achieve the best understanding of this problem and its complex ramifications? What research efforts will yield the greatest benefit? What are the questions that must be answered? Understanding Violence Against Women presents a comprehensive overview of current knowledge and identifies four areas with the greatest potential return from a research investment by increasing the understanding of and responding to domestic violence and rape: What interventions are designed to do, whom they are reaching, and how to reach the many victims who do not seek help. Factors that put people at risk of violence and that precipitate violence, including characteristics of offenders. The scope of domestic violence and sexual assault in America and its conequences to individuals, families, and society, including costs. How to structure the study of violence against women to yield more useful knowledge. Despite the news coverage and talk shows, the real fundamental nature of violence against women remains unexplored and often misunderstood. Understanding Violence Against Women provides direction for increasing knowledge that can help ameliorate this national problem.

Download or read book No Visible Bruises written by Rachel Louise Snyder and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE HILLMAN PRIZE FOR BOOK JOURNALISM, THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD, AND THE LUKAS WORK-IN-PROGRESS AWARD * A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR * NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST * LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST * ABA SILVER GAVEL AWARD FINALIST * KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY: Esquire, Amazon, Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, BookRiot, Economist, New York Times Staff Critics “A seminal and breathtaking account of why home is the most dangerous place to be a woman . . . A tour de force.” -Eve Ensler "Terrifying, courageous reportage from our internal war zone." -Andrew Solomon "Extraordinary." -New York Times ,“Editors' Choice” “Gut-wrenching, required reading.” -Esquire "Compulsively readable . . . It will save lives." -Washington Post “Essential, devastating reading.” -Cheryl Strayed, New York Times Book Review An award-winning journalist's intimate investigation of the true scope of domestic violence, revealing how the roots of America's most pressing social crises are buried in abuse that happens behind closed doors. We call it domestic violence. We call it private violence. Sometimes we call it intimate terrorism. But whatever we call it, we generally do not believe it has anything at all to do with us, despite the World Health Organization deeming it a “global epidemic.” In America, domestic violence accounts for 15 percent of all violent crime, and yet it remains locked in silence, even as its tendrils reach unseen into so many of our most pressing national issues, from our economy to our education system, from mass shootings to mass incarceration to #MeToo. We still have not taken the true measure of this problem. In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder gives context for what we don't know we're seeing. She frames this urgent and immersive account of the scale of domestic violence in our country around key stories that explode the common myths-that if things were bad enough, victims would just leave; that a violent person cannot become nonviolent; that shelter is an adequate response; and most insidiously that violence inside the home is a private matter, sealed from the public sphere and disconnected from other forms of violence. Through the stories of victims, perpetrators, law enforcement, and reform movements from across the country, Snyder explores the real roots of private violence, its far-reaching consequences for society, and what it will take to truly address it.

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Download or read book Violence Against Women written by Claire M. Renzetti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an edited volume of 12 articles previously published in Social Problems that may be considered among the most influential in the development of the sociological study of violence against women.

Download or read book The Future of Change written by Ray Brescia and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Future of Change, Ray Brescia identifies a series of "social innovation moments" in American history. Through these moments—during which social movements have embraced advances in communications technologies—he illuminates the complicated, dangerous, innovative, and exciting relationship between these technologies, social movements, and social change. Brescia shows that, almost without fail, developments in how we communicate shape social movements, just as those movements change the very technologies themselves. From the printing press to the television, social movements have leveraged communications technologies to advance change. In this moment of rapidly evolving communications, it's imperative to assess the role that the Internet, mobile devices, and social media can play in promoting social justice. But first we must look to the past, to examples of movements throughout American history that successfully harnessed communications technology, thus facilitating positive social change. Such movements embraced new communications technologies to help organize their communities; to form grassroots networks in order to facilitate face-to-face interactions; and to promote positive, inclusive messaging that stressed their participants' shared dignity and humanity. Using the past as prologue, The Future of Change provides effective lessons in the use of communications technology so that we can have the best communicative tools at our disposal—both now and in the future.

Download or read book Reshaping the Federal Response to Violence written by Christina Elwell Villegas and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was signed into law and became the first comprehesive piece of federal legislation addressing the problem of sex-based violence. Over the past two decades VAWA has allocated billions of dollars for various services and programs aimed at combating sexual and domestic violence...Through a study of the theoretical foundations and legislative history of VAWA, this disseration aims to evince how this popular and extensive modern law has been shaped by a particular vision of society at odds with traditional American social and legal institutions...this project aims to show that the original ideological premise continues to govern the nature of many of the policies the law has spawned.

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